MH-201 Boom Bip & Doseone - CircleA Birdcatcher in a no-piece suit and a Town Crier in the round, Circle is the critically acclaimed full-length from vocalist Doseone and producer Boom Bip. The New York Times has named Circle one of the "Top-Ten Worthwhile Albums of the Year" and the duo have been rewarded with over a dozen artist profiles including a feature in The Wire and nods to Doseone as Spin's "Incoming" and CMJ's "On the Verge" artist-of-the-month. A cohesive work of word and sound that ends where it begins and emulates the child within, Circle combines honest word and live instrumentation with an amalgam of sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties compositions. Doseone does it all, prose at light speed, in slow speak, and even bird calls. Circle is at once like everything and nothing before it - and what comes next will not be the same.

Tracklist

01. Open

02. The Birdcatcher

03. Square

04. Dead Man's Teal

05. Re: The Rarity Of Meaningful Experience

06. Directions To California

07. The Lantern

08. "Art Saved My Life" - 71

09. Questions Over Coffee

10. Wishful Thinking

11. Ironish

12. 21 To 35

13. Slight

14. "Open Quotes

15. Town Crier's Walk

16. Fence Hopping

17. Poetic License

18. Viewfinder

19. The Birdcatcher's Return

20. Sleep Talkin

21. Gin

22. Goddamn Telephone

23. I Get It

24. Me And People

25. Ho's

26. Square... No Corners

27. This Album Was Meant To Be Myself But Somewhere Along The Line It Ended Up Feeling More Like You... Yet...

28. The Birdcatcher's Oath

29. Close

Release Details

Release Date: 08/01/2000

Running Time: 65:00

Download/Available/$7.00

2XLP/Out Of Print

CD/Available/$10.00

LOSSLESS/Available/$10.00

Territory: World Excluding UK/Europe

License For UK/Europe: The Leaf Label - Release Date: 05/27/2002

Reviews Summary

A masterpiece, fladdout - Your Flesh / Let them take your inner ear outer there. - NME / Invigorating, wildly innovative and inventive - Play Louder / Ambitious, off the wall, and impossible to justice in a review - Straight No Chaser / A landmark moment in hip-hop history - Exclaim! / This might be the best... document to have emerged from hip-hop's savant-garde - The Wire

Meeting beatbox master Boom Bip in college after moving to Cincinnati from Philly, rap poet Doseone is at least half responsible for dreaming up what's become one of independent hip-hop's sturdiest labels--Anticon. Having worked with just about every relevant player in the genre, Dose and Bip are an unstoppable pair. - Download